1. Description of the challenge
Some of the challenges related to social issues are as follows:
• Cultural and people issue
Many experienced professionals believe most people are reluctant to share information and also learn from others’ experience. People avoid admitting mistakes due to negative effects for them in the organization. There is a traditional view that knowledge sharing is not a natural act and that people need to be forced to do it. Examples like knowledge is power, I don’t have time to do it, I want to do it in my way, I have got too much real work to do, you should already know all the answers. These are just a few. Mostly organizational cultures reinforce behaviors that prevent knowledge sharing like most of us in the
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Lack of standardisation of the system, practical difficulties in accessing the intranet and web-site from site offices, and the lack of ICT related resources such as software’s and technical support are examples of barriers for knowledge capture and sharing.
2. Consequences of the challenge
Fortune 500 companies lose roughly “$31.5 billion a year by failing to share knowledge” (Babcock, 2004, p. 46), a very scary figure in this global economy filled with turbulence and change. Social issues in knowledge capture and its reuse will result in decreasing chances of success. Those issues could increase costly mistakes and failure in services to clients. Some of the consequences of the social issues in knowledge management can be described as follows:
• Reduction of widespread contribution
• Lack of relevance, quality, and usability
• Improper implementation of technology
• Improper budgeting and excessive costs
• Lack of responsibility and ownership
• Loss of knowledge from staff release and retirement
3. Overcoming the challenge
Most knowledge is shared socially, e.g., face to face or telephone conversations. However, often the sharing of knowledge happens via electronic communications. Organisational efforts should be focused on creating opportunities for employees to interact, whether formally or informally, to foster knowledge sharing.
Our world has many social problems that we try to solve or reduce in many different ways. In order to solve them, we must first look for them. Tara Hardinge is my Sociology professor. During her lecture, she stated that “Social problem it is a social condition that a part of society view as dangerous or harmful to members of society and there is a need to cure or remedy it” (Hardinge 2015). Linda Mooney, David Knox, and Caroline Schacht are Sociology professors at East Carolina University and are authors of the textbook Understanding Social Problems. Social problems have objective and subjective lements to them. Mooney, Knox, and Schacht state that "the objective element of a social problem refers to the existence of a social condition" (2). Mooney, Knox and Schacht also state that "the subjective element of a social problem refers to the belief that a particular social condition is harmful to society or to a segment and that it should and can be changed" (3). Sociological imagination is a term developed by American Sociologist, C. Wright Mills. Mooney, Knox, and Schacht state that "Sociological imagination refers to the ability to see the connections between our personal lives and the social world in which we live in" (. Mooney, Knox, and Schacht state that "Sociologists use sociological imagination to distinguish between “private troubles” and “public issues” and to see connections between the events and conditions of our lives and the social and historical
Hislop, D. (2013). Knowledge management in organizations: A critical introduction (3rd ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
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agencies to identify key social issues for reform, while influencing the outcome of the decision making process.
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Thus, clarity in the conduct of knowledge sharing is necessary for suitable levels of knowledge sharing. Kelley’s attribution theory suggests that people form attributions about cause–effect relationships in situations depending on the degree of distinctiveness (which means that the target is highly observable), consistency (target behaves the same way in different situations), and consensus (other targets share their views on the situation) (Kelley, 1967). Applying this to HRM systems, Bowen and Ostroff (2004) note that in strong HRM systems, messages regarding what is appropriate behaviour are communicated (via HRM practices) to employees in an unambiguous, consistent, and consensual way.
The term “social problem” cannot be comprehensively defined without understanding the meaning of social itself before joining problem.
“Knowledge sharing means transfer, dissemination, and exchange of knowledge, experience, skills, and valuable information from one individual to other members within an organization”.